Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
incongruous (adj.)
when combined with a preposition, uses about, among, in, on, to, with, and within: There are a few characteristics that seem to me incongruous about her. Her face looks incongruous among all those grim visages. It seems incongruous in him to hate so fiercely. The guardsman’s mustache looked incongruous on his cherubic face. We appeared incongruous to the other guests. Her high spirits were incongruous with the gloomy appearance of her husband. His zeal was incongruous within the context of everyone else’s lassitude.
